Word Meanings - PUBIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes. Of or pertaining to the pubis.

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• PUBES
  The down of plants; a downy or villous substance which grows on plants; pubescence. (more info) The hair which appears upon the lower part of the hypogastric region at the age of puberty. Hence , the lower part of the hypogastric region; the pubic
• PUBESCENCE
  1. The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. Sir T. Browne. 2. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
• PUBESCENCY
  Pubescence.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• LOWERY
  Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
• PUBIS
  The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.
• LOWER
  Compar. of Low, a.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• HYPOGASTRIC
  Of or pertaining to the hypogastrium or the hypogastric region. Hypogastric region. The lower part of the abdomen. An arbitrary division of the abdomen below the umbilical and between the two iliac regions.
• PUBESCENT
  reach puberty, to grow hairy or mossy, fr. pubes pubes: cf. F. 1. Arrived at puberty. That . . . the men pubescent at the age of twice seven, is accounted a punctual truth. Sir T. Browne. 2. Covered with pubescence, or fine short hairs,
• PUBIC
  Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as, the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of the hypogastric region. See Pubes. Of or pertaining to the pubis.
• LOWER-CASE
  Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
• REGIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a particular region; sectional.
• LOWERING
  Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
• REGION
  1. One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
• LOWERINGLY
  In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• FLOWER-DE-LUCE
  A genus of perennial herbs with swordlike leaves and large three-petaled flowers often of very gay colors, but probably white in the plant first chosen for the royal French emblem. Note: There are nearly one hundred species, natives of the north
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• FLOWERY
  1. Full of flowers; abounding with blossoms. 2. Highly embellished with figurative language; florid; as, a flowery style. Milton. The flowery kingdom, China.
• FLOWERLESSNESS
  State of being without flowers.
• MAYFLOWER
  In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus ; also, the blossom of these plants.
• PHOTIC REGION
  The uppermost zone of the sea, which receives the most light.
• UNFLOWER
  To strip of flowers. G. Fletcher.
• FLOWERLESS
  Having no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• GLOBEFLOWER
  A plant of the genus Trollius , found in the mountainous parts of Europe, and producing handsome globe-shaped flowers. The American plant Trollius laxus. Japan globeflower. See Corchorus.
• INTERPUBIC
  Between the pubic bones or cartilages; as, the interpubic disk.